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title: "„Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.“"
id: "26988"
slug: "dear-subscriber-you-are-registered-as-a-participant-in-a-mass-disturbance"
permalink: "https://eay.cc/2014/dear-subscriber-you-are-registered-as-a-participant-in-a-mass-disturbance/"
published_at: "2014-01-23T07:30:50+00:00"
author: "Stefan Grund"
type: "post"
format: "link"
tags:
  - "smart phones stupid people"
  - "überwachung"
  - "ukraine"
external_url: "http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/blog/maybe-the-most-orwellian-text-message-ever-sent"
short_url: "https://eay.li/2cd"
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# „Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.“

[Link →](http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/blog/maybe-the-most-orwellian-text-message-ever-sent)

> That’s a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting public demonstrations went into effect. It was the regime’s police force, sending protesters the perfectly dystopian text message to accompany the newly minted, perfectly dystopian legislation.